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No. 24,166. Patented May 24, 1859.

UNTTED STATEg ATENT GFFICE.

THOMAS H. TATLOVV, JR., OF PALMYRA, MISSOURI.

. ROCKING-CHAIR.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 24,166, dated May 24, 1859.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS H. TATLOW, J11, of Palmyra, in the county of Marion and State of Missouri, have invented a new and Improved RockingChair; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which Figure 1, represents a longitudinal vertical section of my rocking chair with the back inclined. Fig. 2, is a side elevation of ditto, with the back erect. Fig. 3, represents an elevation of the rod used for retaining the back.

Similar letters of reference in both views indicate corresponding parts.

This invention consists in extending the arms of the chair down behind the seat, to the rockers so as to form a circular arc the under edge of which is provided with saw teeth which serve to retain the back in any desired inclination by means of a rod with two rectangular bends at each end, which rod is attached to the back and the bends of which are forced into the saw teeth attached to the extensions of these arms by means of springs.

To enable those skilled in the art to make and use my invention I will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

The seat A, is constructed in the usual manner with a cane bottom or with a wooden bottom or upholstered, according to the fancy of buyers, and supported by legs, 13, which rest on the rockers, C, and the position of which is strengthened by crossbraces D. The arms, E, are secured to the sides of the seat in the usual manner, but they extend down behind the seat to the rockers so as to form circular arcs F, the under edge of which is provided with saw teeth a, which point toward the seat.

G represents the back of the chair, which is secured to the seat by means of hinges b, and these hinges form the center of the circles in which the arcs, F, are situated. Secured to the back by means of loops or staples, c, is a rod (Z, which has two rectangular bends at each end, as clearly repre sented in Fig. 3, and which is in such a position that these bends catch under the extensions F, of the arms and which are retained by the teeth a, and small springs, 6, keep these bends up to the under edge of the arcs F. The rod (Z is operated by means of knobs, f, on its ends, and by depressing these knobs the bends of the rod are thrown out of the teeth a, and the back can be inclined to any desired degree, and as soon as the hands, which depress the knobs f, relax the bends are forced up to the lower edge of the arcs F, by the action of the springs e, and

they catch again in the teeth a. When the back is raised, the bends of the rod (Z, slide easily over the inclined parts of the teeth, but as these bends catch over the vertical parts of these teeth the back is perfectly secured in any inclination given to the same.

This chair is very convenient, particularly for aged and infirm persons, and from the simplicity of its construction and its operation it can be made cheap, and it is easily understood by all persons of ordinary intellect.

WVhat I claim as new and desire to secure, by Letters Patent, as a new and improved article of manufacture is 2- A rocking-chair having its arms extending down to the rockers, and its back arranged and operated as herein specified.

THOS. H. TATLOW, JR.

Witnesses:

JosErH A. LAFON,

J 0s. R. WINCHELL. 

